Poems (Everyman's Pocket Poets)

by C H A R L E S B A U D E L A I R E (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $16.04

  An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classic' 128 pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The binding, paper and production will be visibly superior in every way to that of Bloomsbury

• Used

  Paperback
  1975

  $5.04

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $15.05

  The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. Tableaux parisiens portrays the brutal life of Paris' thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as Le Beau Navire , flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as La Chambre Double deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal , show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.